wimmy said:
welcome.
I'm guessing by your title you are having a little trouble with perishing door handles? It happens. The rubber handles corrode and split after time which leaves them looking a little tatty.
The solution is to fit handles from the Marea which can be painted in the same colour of your car and do not perish. A guide on how to do this can be found here
http://www.bravo-guide.co.uk/mod-a-bravo.htm#handle
Hi there, just thought I'd tell you the 'budget' way of repair for the Bravo door handles!
We're selling my wife's 1.4SX, so didn't want to go through the time and cost of replacing the handles. :bang: Instead, I peeled off the rubber around the barrel portion of the handles (not the 'pull' part) and it looked quite good, so I carefully applied translucent silica gel (same stuff you use around the kitchen tops) all the way around the black plastic surrounding the barrel.
It actually looks very nice and forms a great seal, but I was worried about it coming away from the metal, so I cleaned the metal around the barrel plastic with alcohol (Isopropyl). There is some movement between the plastic and the door metal when you open the car door
, but it is minimal, and the gel has held well. The overall result is that the lines of the door looks great, and the 'modification' doesn't look out of place!
Only time will tell as to how long it'll last, but it is a repair that can be done over and over again, very cheaply.
By the way, I'm still a Fiat owner
; Replacement car No2 is a Brava 115 ELX with all the trimmings!
